Today and tomorrow Foreign Minister Keit Pentus-Rosimannus will participate in the OSCE Council of Foreign Ministers meeting

05.03.2015

Today and tomorrow Foreign Minister Keit Pentus-Rosimannus will attend the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Council of Foreign Ministers meeting in Basel, Switzerland.

The foreign ministers will discuss the situation in Ukraine and the role of OSCE in resolving the conflict, and the topics related to security in Europe will be addressed more broadly.

In her speech that she will present tomorrow, Pentus-Rosimannus will talk about the situation in Ukraine and the OSCE contribution to aiding Ukraine.

Tomorrow, Pentus-Rosimannus will also meet with Canadian foreign minister John Baird, Israeli foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman, Georgian foreign minister Tamar Beruchašvili, Armenian foreign minister Edward Nalbandian and Macedonian foreign minister Nikola Poposki in Basel. The foreign ministers will talk about bilateral relations and the security situation in Europe and more generally. Pentus-Rosimannus will also meet with the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities, Astrid Thors.

This year, the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe is chaired by Switzerland.